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Show 4 THE PAYSON CHRONICLE 4-- H Safety Program Highlights Poison Prevention Week, March Thursday, February 25, 1971 Annual report given by Red Cross The following is the annual of activities and services of the Central Utah Chapter American Red Cross, Provo, Utah for 1970. The report shows that continuing local Red Cross activities remained at a high level with increases in most areas. This means that many more people in Central Utah communities are receiving emergency services to servicemen and their families; aid to veterans and dependents; training in first aid; water safety; home care; nursing and mother-bab- y blood and blood derivatives; volunteer help to hospitals and nursing homes; local and international activities through Youth Red Cross in schools; and disaster help locally, nationally and internationally. During the year 1970 the Red Cross in Central Utah helped in 888 cases in service to military families and veterans activities. These were primarily emergency assistance to servicemen and their dependents. Loans totaling $1645 were made through the Central Utah Chapter and 546 long distance and overseas messages were sent for servicemen and their families. Due to the military situation in Vietnam and other areas worldwide this service by Red Cross has tripled since 1965 in our county. In the Payson and So. Utah County, area, 62 casec were served with 71 long distant and overseas messages sent. Central Utah Chapter participated in disaster work both locally and in other disasters throughout the country. Serving of food to sheriffs posse and others helping in rescue work occurred twice during the past year. Two local families who were victims of fires were helped. In addition financial aid was given to help people in Hurricane Celia as well as the Peruvian and East Pakistan disasters through the cooperation report of Utah United County Fund. Numerous inquiries were also made into disaster areas for relatives living in our chapter area. The Intermountain Red Cross Blood Center gave to the people of Central Utah through their doctors 5394cc of gamma globulin with a value of $13, 485 during 1970. In addition other blood derivatives of fibrinogen and serum albumin were given to hospitals. Utah County veterans received 67 pints of blood at the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City. 1151 pints of blood were collected at Brigham Young University from students and others in support of this program. In Payson and So. Utah County Area, 214 units of Gama Globulin was given with a value of $535.00. Training in safety and nursing services by Central Utah Chapter was another area of increased activity. In addition to classes for instructors, 1343 persons received first aid training; 1793 persons received training in water safety and 762 women were given training in home nursing and mother-bab- y care. 3000 people viewed Cross films and were given lectures in safety, first aid and Red home nursing. In Payson and Southern Utah County Area, 89 certificates were issued in Nursing and Savety Service Programs. Red Cross volunteers gave many hundreds of hours of service throughout Central Utah during the year. Many patients at the Utah State Hosp. were helped through the Forgotten Patients Christmas program by Red Cross participation. 150 Christmas bags were sewn and packed for distribution to servicemen in Vietnam on Christmas Day, which was a very rich and rewarding experience for those who participated. Donated food and clothing was also distributed by Red Cross to the needy locally and throughout the Intermountain area. Forty-si- x schools throughout Central Utah participated in the Youth Red Cross program during 1970. Activities included over 200 gift boxes for overseas use as well as favors and decorations to wards in local hospitals and rest homes and other volunteer aid by students. Seventeen young people attended the Red Cross Youth Training Center at Utah State University last summer as part of this program. Through local Red Cross services many lives are saved, emergencies are solved and happiness is brought to many and all are made possible by funds contributed to Red Cross locally through United Fund. TO WORK FOR YOU i SPECIAL - President Nixon has proclaimed March 0 as Poison Prevention Week. Poisons come in many disguises but household poisons and various insecticides seem to be the greatest culprits because they are so often stored haphazardly in the home. Things like bleaches, oven cleaners, solvents and old medicines are usually easy for the toddler to find. And like all children what they see goes into the mouth before even the most) alert mother can prevent it. Now a group of young members between people, the ages of 9 and 19, are doing something to educate the public on the dangers of this type of poisoning. They are the participants in the 4-- safety program organized in clubs throughout the country. The poison prevention project is being stressed by clubs in cities like Phoenix where one small club of just five members 14-2- Dear Reader: Ive been critized for calling President Nixon Dick." Do you remember when President Eisenhower wanted us to call him Ike?" Some of you old timers may remember when everyone called Theodore Roosevelt Teddy," and a little over a hundred years ago, a feller by the name of Abraham Lincoln was called Abe." If time permitted, I could go on and on with the nick names we Americans have put on our lovable presidents. Being informal is what makes America great. (So much for that, lets forget.) If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away. Did you know? Mormon Missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands in the last quarter of the 19th century and by 1889 about 75 Hawaiians whoxhtid embraced the gospel in Hawaii had migrated to Utah and were living in Salt Lake City. These people were glad to have arrived in the heartland of their new religion, but they soon found that Utah had very little in common with their tropical homeland. The food, work, language, climate, recreation and customs of their white neighbors were completely foreign to the Kanakas as they were called. Unskilled in the trades and professions needed in the area, the Hawaiians could obtain only the most menial, least desirable and lowest paying jobs. Culturally and socially, the Kanakas were on the outer fringe of Utah society. Their problem demanded a solution. Joseph F. Smith was President of the church and it was .decided by the First Presidency that a suitable area be found for these faithful members away from Salt Lake City. Skull Valley, a desolate area about 75 miles from Utahs largest city was chosen for them to settle. They drove the 75 miles to their new home which bordered the Salt Flats and soon after their arrival they showed their gratitude for the barren land. They named their new colony Iscepa, the Hawaiian name for Joseph, after Joseph F. Smith. losepa was owned and operated by the Mormon Church. The Kanakas worked for a fixed wage, putting most of their earnings back into the land. losepa was an ecclesiastical organization unique in Mormon Church history and remained under the control of the First Presidency throughout its entire twenty-eigyear history. The First Presidency appointed a leader to preside over the Hawaiians in the dual responsibility of spiritual counselor and financial manager. The Kanakas of losepa worked hard at retaining their cultural identity even though after twenty-eight years, many had never been to the islands and were unacquainted with their ancestral way of life. Always fond of glorious feasts and needing little reason to celebrate, their favorite day was August 18, the anniversary of their arrival at losepa. Nothing could discourage the inherent happiness of the Hawaiians. As excellent musicians, they were often called upon to perform in other Utah settlements, mixing Mormon hymns with Hawaiian music. As evidenced throughout their twenty-eig- ht years at losepa, the Hawaiians were extremely faithful Mormons. Their main purpose in coming to Utah was to better serve their religion through the performance of sacred ordinances in the Salt Lake Temple. Naturally, when the church officials announced that a temple would be built in Hawaii for the Polynesian Mormons, most of the losepa colonists decided to return. The church provided passage for these Kanakas wanting to leave Utah, but unable to pay themselves. Thus ended the era of this strange desert settlement. In 1917 the Deseret Livestock Company purchased the land of losepa for $150,000. The buildings were torn down and hauled away, leaving behind a few foundations, some rockpiles and one or two water hydrants standing like lonely sentinels in the middle of the alkaline desert. This little morsel of wisdom I picked up from the works of Henry David Thoreau, I passed quickly over it as I did many others of its kind, but this one bothered me, so I reread it a few times before it started to' take form in my mind. I couldnt find anyplace in the book where Thoreau critized a man for marching slower than his companions, nor did he chastize because ones drummer may be further away. He merely said that we all have our own drummer and we do the best we can in our living, our making money, our religion, our marrying and our dying. I imagine a feller like Tom Edison heard his drummer loud and clear. We are told that he seldom slept longer than five hours per night; I would say was that Toms"DrummerBoy kept pretty busy. But oh, what great things he left us. Millions have been made happy because Edisons drummer kept him going. Some of our companions sleep much longer than is necessary, waste time in place where they cannot hear their drummer. (The juke box plays too loudly.) Or they dull their wits with dope and drink and the cadence is smothered. I believe when the sound of our drum comes through to us, we cannot sleep longer than is necessary; we are up and about, doing the thing we must do. But we must be careful as to where the sound of the drum comes 4-- H H from; it may come from the hot spots down below. Thats where Hitlers drummer boy was located. If hed have listened for a n o t h e r drummer, what great power for good that scamp would have had. I wouldnt want to say from where Howard Hughes gets his vibrations, but hes certainly been getting them. Well tis bitter cold, the night is dark and I need my rest. My drummer seems far away. Cheerio Education program 14-2- 0 held 56 meetings stressing safety in the home. Our club stressed safety of safe toys and how to children store poisons, cleaning materials, etc., so that children cannot get them, Mrs. Teresa Tompkins, local 4-- leader said. The Nez Perce County Junior Council (Idaho) made a project of providing public information on household poisons and methods of prevention at the request of local doctors. They secured TV programs, visited hospitals, contacted service organizations, youth groups, schools and civic organizations. The group provided posters that were set up in local stores and offices. They distributed over 3,000 pieces of literature throughout the county and have decided to make the campaign an annual project. Clubs from all parts of the country have taken the problem of poison prevention as one of the major projects in the safety program. This is true whether the club is made up of rural boys and girls or young people from the inner city of large metropolitan areas. Other safety projects getting special attention include bicycle, skiing, radiation, avoiding eye damage (eclipse), baby sitting course, drug safety, testing of drinking water and safety while snowmobiling. These projects are, of course, in addition to traditional safety programs such as driving, accidents in the H 4-- H CM CL (7) students as follows: excellent 7; good 57 qoo weeo fcixn for eoepqTVWG 3. agree strongly sponded: 24; agree 50; dont know 11; disagree 11; and -- -- 4. 7; 1. 7; SHOOTING ONE for the Heart Fund is Dave a star of the H New York Knick- H sophomores, juniors and senThe other iors responding. two high schools were likewise On most issues the polled. results were similar, particularly at Springville High School which is also organized on a modular schedule. 4-- H . 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When asked if high school students should be given opportunity to , exercise responsibility for their own behavior, (one of the goals of a modular schedule plan), parents re- Stustrongly disagree -dents agresponded: strongly differ radicalOpinions quite ree dont agree 40; 47; ly regarding modular schedulknow disagree -- 5; ing at the high school. A large strongly disagree majority of students (72) and Teachers were asked: Do a slight majority of teachers believe modular scheduling, you (57) favor modular schedulwith its accompanying unstrucing. Parents are about equally tured time, will help teach students to organize and use their home, electric wiring, fire pretime They answervention, safe handling of guns, ed: profitably? no, opposite effect water safety and first aid. somewhat useful 40; yes, There are over half million definitely- no connection 37; young people enrolled in the 4-171 Teachers split in their opinsafety program and they are all becoming better citizens because ions regarding the usefulness of unstructured time to the stuof their involvement. General Motors sponsors the dent, 23 thinking it is very 23 4-believing it to be safety program and provides useful, 43 rating it certificates of merit to four local wasted time and When teachers useful fairly clubs in each county conducting meet students on an individoutstanding safety programs. ual basis, 60 of them discuss Ten clubs within each state car classowrk, 23 discuss plans also earn certificates. for the students future, 7 The 4-safety program and discuss extra credit work. The questionnaire from which all H activities are supervised by the Cooperative Extension the above opinions were drawn was administered to 150 stuService. aU For more information on the dents, their parents, and members. The students faculty safety program or any of the and parents were selected on a other 4-programs, contact strictly random basis (chance), your county extension office. with about equal numbers of very poor 0..0. snap fair In 1971, a Champion! 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